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Posted on the Aug 07, 2012 by Carlin Ross
This is a photograph of Marilyn Monroe taken by Andrede Dienes. It's so artistic like their falling. And I've never seen a picture of her nude with a man. If she didn't become the sex icon/pin-up...
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Posted on the Aug 06, 2012 by Carlin Ross
This week Harrods opened the doors to its first gender-neutral toy department, designed by London and Singapore-based interior architects Shed. Harrods commissioned the multi-million pound Toy...
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Posted on the Aug 06, 2012 by Carlin Ross
The web is abuzz with tweets about Bobak Ferdowsi, flight director of NASA's Curiosity rover. For every launch, he gets a new hairstyle. Betty loves his stars. Super dreamy and he's a geek too. He...
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Posted on the Aug 03, 2012 by Carlin Ross
The one thing I respected about communism was its repudiation of all things religious.  China and Russia took no issue with things like stem cell research or intentional motherhood.  They...
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Posted on the Aug 02, 2012 by Betty Dodson
I never met Gore Vidal in person but our paths crossed via the written word. It was back in the glorious 70’s and I was just beginning to make the monumental effort to learn how to write. My mentor...
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Posted on the Jul 29, 2012 by Carlin Ross
George R. R. Martin is often asked why there's so much sex on HBO's Game of Thrones. I love his answer: “I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink...
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Posted on the Jul 23, 2012 by Betty Dodson
I didn't grow up reading websites like Truthout. My understanding of government and money from childhood through most of my adult years was pathetic. I was not formally educated other than art school...
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Posted on the Jul 21, 2012 by Carlin Ross
Michelle Jenneke is the new "hot chick" athlete that has the web aflutter following this clip of her dancing: As a woman who likes women, I have to say that the biggest turn on for me was when she...
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Posted on the Jun 13, 2012 by Carlin Ross
I've fantasized about creating multiple dating profiles to see how crazy I could get - how far I could take it - before men would classify me as "psycho".  The question: with the right picture...
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Posted on the Jun 11, 2012 by Carlin Ross
Congress passed the Equal Pay Act...the Lilly Ledbetter Act...but women still make $.80 on the dollar to men.  Even Batgirl gets it: we need to pass the Equal Rights Amendment:
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Posted on the Jun 09, 2012 by Betty Dodson
This was a comment on the Nation website in response to an article by Chris Hayes on “Why Elites Fail.” It speaks so clearly to what we are up against with big money in politics. I’d love to know the...
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Marilyn Monroe with Ella Fitzgerald
Posted on the Jun 06, 2012 by Carlin Ross
When you're the sex siren of all time, people never get to know the real you.  Marilyn was more than her perfect face and amazing body.  She had heart: Ella Fitzgerald wanted to play at...
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Posted on the Jun 03, 2012 by Betty Dodson
Paul Armentano describes how the mainstream media fails to report the positive affects of medical marijuana: "For decades, opponents of the medical use of cannabis have demanded that proponents...
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Posted on the May 28, 2012 by Carlin Ross
I'm not sure why but I love this image.  Maybe it's because you don't know who this woman is...where she's headed for the evening...if she smudged her pantyhose lines. 
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Posted on the May 28, 2012 by Betty Dodson
Every man in my family served in different wars. My Dad was in the First World War, my oldest brother was in the Second World War and my two younger brothers served in the Korean War. My friend...
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